Top 25 failures in Seattle and the NW in 2013

December 27, 2013 |By JAKE ELLISON

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1. Seattle Sonic’s NBA debacle has to be among the biggest civic failures of 2013. With months of work, millions of dollars and big plans for an arena development all nailed down and ready to go … Chris Hansen et al. failed to win the Sacramento Kings. Then, “the man who hates Seattle” NBA commissioner David Stern announced that NBA expansion, if there ever is one, will likely be years in the making.

All of Hansen’s plans for a parcel of land down in Sodo as well as the city and county backing for it, are on hold until he signs an NBA team. “If you want the Sonics back, it’s probably a good time to get over the anger and frustration, and just get back to doing what it takes to show everybody what a great city we are,” Hansen said on KJR Sports Radio’s “Dave ‘Softy’ Mahler Show.”

1. Seattle Sonic’s NBA debacle has to be among the biggest civic failures of 2013. With months of work, millions of dollars and big plans for an arena development all nailed down and ready to go … Chris Hansen et al. failed to win the Sacramento Kings. Then, “the man who hates Seattle” NBA commissioner David Stern announced that NBA expansion, if there ever is one, will likely be years in the making.

All of Hansen’s plans for a parcel of land down in Sodo as well as the city and county backing for it, are on hold until he signs an NBA team. “If you want the Sonics back, it’s probably a good time to get over the anger and frustration, and just get back to doing what it takes to show everybody what a great city we are,” Hansen said on KJR Sports Radio’s “Dave ‘Softy’ Mahler Show.”